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Live Nation brings Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks together for the first time as Soldier Field schedule heats up

Normally the only sounds coming out of Soldier Field during the blustery winter months are the shouts of football fans, but when the Chicago Bears Drumline started playing [More…]

Roots rockers Freddy Jones Band take packed Park West through 30 years of “In A Daydream”

The Windy City was already getting acquainted with the Freddy Jones Band on the underground as early as 1990, but the roots meets blues rockers really made a splash all [More…]

Punk godmother, “Because The Night” belter Patti Smith reminds Salt Shed “People Have The Power”

Before screaming a single note inside a just shy of sold out Salt Shed, the enduringly inimitable and always insightful Patti Smith proclaimed how wonderful it felt to be [More…]

Trans-Siberian Orchestra and “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve” encore electrifies Fiserv Forum

It may have been an encore of a show frequently staged by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but when “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve – The Best Of TSO And More” Tour filled up [More…]

Liar’s Club and the art of Evan Dando, Space and the albums residency of The Lemonheads

Breaking out of Boston during the late ‘80s and early ‘90s alternative music boom period, Chicago has played an integral role for The Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando, who [More…]

Lauded local Michael McDermott’s 50th City Winery show full of fresh starts, mischief, mistletoe

To those in Chicago, Michael McDermott is a superb yet criminally underrated troubadour who never got the push he deserved on a national level while getting off the ground in [More…]

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy hosts a “Wild & Swingin’ Holiday Party” for North Central’s Pfeiffer Hall

The jazz and swing revival of the late 1990s owes much of its boom to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, who alongside acts such as The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Cherry Poppin’ [More…]

House Of Blues becomes a “Barbie World” over the explosive Danish dance-pop of Aqua’s “Aquarium”

From the moment the “Aquarium” album released in 1997 and went 14 times platinum in a catalogue rapidly approaching sales of 40 million, American fans have patiently [More…]

Broadway-bound “Boop!” bolstered by invincible Jasmine Amy Rogers, fuel from David Foster at CIBC

For nearly 100 years, Betty Boop has captivated every inhabitable continent like no other cartoon could, becoming a brand ambassador long before the term ever existed and [More…]

Hard Rock Live gets “Back At One” via balladeer Brian McKnight, neo-soul greatness of Vivian Green

Regardless if he’s writing for R&B, pop, the holidays or otherwise, Brian McKnight is both a modern day king of love ballads and also no stranger to dance grooves, [More…]